Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

You may already know that I plan in earnest to provide my personal President’s Updates as quarterly informal reports, but that all too often I fall behind on this well-intended schedule—as is the case with the update you’re reading now! Don’t get me wrong: I love writing my updates. While the majority of our members are U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations, Martus enables human rights defenders on the front lines of fighting abuse to stay safe and protects the identities of those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In this guide, DNL OmniMedia will cover the ins and outs of conducting a nonprofit technology assessment from start to finish through the following points: Preparing for the Assessment Conducting a Technology Assessment Step 1: Discovery Step 2: Analysis and Strategy Step 3: Documentation Step 4: Review. Build your team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Meet Bib Filbon and Jeff Bladt who have the job title, “Data Scientist,” and are on staff at DoSomething.Org. They work in partnership with DoSomething’s program staff to collect, analyze, and make sense of data to improve impact of DoSomething’s programs. DoSomething.org does not consider this overhead.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

Today we’re excited to share that Matt Groch , Director of Solution Delivery at Mission Measurement , will offer a keynote called Moneyball for Social Impact, Or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace the implications of a discrete closed-loop factor analysis framework for social impact. How do we measure social change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

People are using social and Internet platforms – many of which have immense amounts of unstructured and often shallow information. The ability to distinguish between the “noise” and the message in the ever-growing sea of information. Synthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. It doesn't need to be an all-consuming activity, but you need to decide who will do the heavy listening, who needs the know what has been said, and who is empowered on respond or act on the information. The most important listening literacy skills are. Pattern Analysis .

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Every day, American nonprofits, charities, and libraries rely on TechSoup's product donation program for the information they need to make smart decisions about technology. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Vancouver, British Columbia: Better Data Visualization Using Excel: Hands-on Workshop.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

In the absence of systematically collected data, nobody would ever know. Data systems have come a long way from unwieldy Excel spreadsheets and calculators. There are some key elements to look for when your organization is ready to evaluate a performance management data system.

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2023

For example, if you ran a literacy organization and you had a blog post about how one of your former beneficiaries just became the poet laureate for a nearby city, that would be an excellent candidate. The literacy nonprofit talked about above might name their recurring donors their “Bookworm Brigade.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Human Rights Patrick Ball recently spent a month at the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he held office hours and helped prosecutors use quantitative data and statistical analysis to pursue war crimes cases. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

It's not just technologists or data experts, but also community members, activists, and government officials. WeVote is a nonpartisan volunteer organization focused on creating tools to empower voters, including a mobile app to help voters make informed decisions. How to unlock data from PDF reports on the city's website.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2023

There is no “I” in data. No one team or person can handle all the data in a given organization, so how do you get everyone to pull together and gain alignment? Unifying your data strategy is not an easy task. What’s in your data vision? The systems and tools that both produce and use data just keep on multiplying.

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